<p>The much-awaited Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway - the country’s longest Greenfield road project - will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 11. </p>.<p>This new Expressway connects Mumbai to Nagpur, the winter capital of the state and the hub of the Vidarbha region and central India. </p>.<p>The Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg - as it is formally known - is one of the most ambitious road projects ever undertaken in India - a six-lane access controlled highway. </p>.<p>This is the second Expressway in the state after the Mumbai-Pune Expressway or E-Way, formally known as Yashwantrao Chavan Expressway. </p>.<p>Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that Modi would inaugurate the project on December 11. </p>.<p>“Modi will be inaugurating the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway. He will inaugurate the 500-km stretch from Nagpur to Shirdi, which has been completed, and the remaining stretch will be completed in six months, which will connect Shirdi to Mumbai,” Fadnavis said. </p>.<p>The 701 km Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway was launched when Fadnavis was Chief Minister between 2014-19 when he headed the BJP-Shiv Sena government.</p>.<p>Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had overseen the implementation as the Urban Development Minister in the Fadnavis-government and later in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government. </p>.<p>The Expressway passes through ten districts Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati, Washim, Buldhana, Aurangabad, Jalna, Ahmednagar, Nashik and Thane.</p>.<p>It will connect Nagpur to Mumbai and have direct connectivity with the country’s largest container port JNPT. This will enhance EXIM trade in the state. </p>.<p>Inter-connecting highways and feeder roads would be constructed to connect all important cities and tourist places along this route. </p>.<p>This will connect another fourteen districts Chandrapur, Bhandara, Gondia, Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Akola, Hingoli, Parbhani, Nanded, Beed, Dhule, Jalgaon, Palghar and Raigad. </p>.<p>In this manner, a total of twenty-four districts in Maharashtra will be connected via this Expressway.</p>.<p>Major tourist destinations in the state will also be connected to the expressway.</p>.<p>It will connect several industrial areas, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC), and the dry ports of Wardha and Jalna.</p>.<p>The Expressway, having a total width of 120 metres with a central median of 22.5 metres follows international standards of design. There will be 8 lanes, 4 on each side. In case there is a need to increase lanes on either side, a provision has been made in the centre of the expressway. It will have service roads on both sides that will connect through underpasses.</p>.<p>It will have around 50+ flyovers, 24+ interchanges, more than 5 tunnels, 400+ vehicular and 300+ pedestrian underpasses provided at strategic locations. It has multiple underpasses and overpasses for wild animals.</p>.<p>It will have a speed limit of 150 km which will bring Nagpur and Mumbai within 8 hours reach. Thus, travel time from Mumbai to Aurangabad will be 4 hours and from Aurangabad to Nagpur, another 4 hours.</p>
<p>The much-awaited Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway - the country’s longest Greenfield road project - will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 11. </p>.<p>This new Expressway connects Mumbai to Nagpur, the winter capital of the state and the hub of the Vidarbha region and central India. </p>.<p>The Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg - as it is formally known - is one of the most ambitious road projects ever undertaken in India - a six-lane access controlled highway. </p>.<p>This is the second Expressway in the state after the Mumbai-Pune Expressway or E-Way, formally known as Yashwantrao Chavan Expressway. </p>.<p>Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that Modi would inaugurate the project on December 11. </p>.<p>“Modi will be inaugurating the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway. He will inaugurate the 500-km stretch from Nagpur to Shirdi, which has been completed, and the remaining stretch will be completed in six months, which will connect Shirdi to Mumbai,” Fadnavis said. </p>.<p>The 701 km Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway was launched when Fadnavis was Chief Minister between 2014-19 when he headed the BJP-Shiv Sena government.</p>.<p>Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had overseen the implementation as the Urban Development Minister in the Fadnavis-government and later in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government. </p>.<p>The Expressway passes through ten districts Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati, Washim, Buldhana, Aurangabad, Jalna, Ahmednagar, Nashik and Thane.</p>.<p>It will connect Nagpur to Mumbai and have direct connectivity with the country’s largest container port JNPT. This will enhance EXIM trade in the state. </p>.<p>Inter-connecting highways and feeder roads would be constructed to connect all important cities and tourist places along this route. </p>.<p>This will connect another fourteen districts Chandrapur, Bhandara, Gondia, Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Akola, Hingoli, Parbhani, Nanded, Beed, Dhule, Jalgaon, Palghar and Raigad. </p>.<p>In this manner, a total of twenty-four districts in Maharashtra will be connected via this Expressway.</p>.<p>Major tourist destinations in the state will also be connected to the expressway.</p>.<p>It will connect several industrial areas, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC), and the dry ports of Wardha and Jalna.</p>.<p>The Expressway, having a total width of 120 metres with a central median of 22.5 metres follows international standards of design. There will be 8 lanes, 4 on each side. In case there is a need to increase lanes on either side, a provision has been made in the centre of the expressway. It will have service roads on both sides that will connect through underpasses.</p>.<p>It will have around 50+ flyovers, 24+ interchanges, more than 5 tunnels, 400+ vehicular and 300+ pedestrian underpasses provided at strategic locations. It has multiple underpasses and overpasses for wild animals.</p>.<p>It will have a speed limit of 150 km which will bring Nagpur and Mumbai within 8 hours reach. Thus, travel time from Mumbai to Aurangabad will be 4 hours and from Aurangabad to Nagpur, another 4 hours.</p>